During the conclusive British attack on Seringapatam on 2 May 1799, a British shot struck a magazine of rockets within the Tipu Sultan's fort causing it to explode and send a towering cloud of black smoke, with cascades of exploding white light, rising up from the battlements.

In recognition of his leadership and preaching, in 1799, Allen was ordained as the first black Methodist minister by Bishop Francis Asbury.

In 1799, Allen was ordained as the first black minister in the Methodist Church by Bishop Francis Asbury.

During the conclusive British attack on Srirangapattana on May 2, 1799, a British shot struck a magazine of rockets within Tipu Sultan's fort, causing it to explode and send a towering cloud of black smoke with cascades of exploding white light rising up from the battlements.

In 1836 the colony appointed its first black governor John Brown Russwurm ( 1799 – 1851 ), who remained governor until his death.

From 1799 to 1807 the military commandant was John Despard, brother of Edward.

The colony's new name honoured the fourth son of King George III, Prince Edward Augustus, the Duke of Kent ( 1767 – 1820 ), who subsequently led the British military forces on the continent as Commander-in-Chief, North America ( 1799 – 1800 ), with his headquarters in Halifax.

In Holland, the Dutch Republic ’ s 17th-century ( 1609 – 1672 ) mercantilist dominion was a first instance of global, commercial hegemony, made feasible with its technological development of wind power and its Four Great Fleets, for the efficient production and delivery of goods and services, which, in turn, made possible its Amsterdam stock market and concomitant dominance of world trade ; in France, King Louis XIV ( 1638 – 1715 ) and ( Emperor ) Napoleon I ( 1799 – 1815 ) established French hegemony via economic, cultural, and military domination of most of Continental Europe.

Due to internal instability and French military disasters in 1798 and 1799, the Directory only lasted for four years.

* George Washington ( 1732 – 1799 ), military general and first President of the United States of America

In April 1799 a warrant was issued for his arrest, and he escaped, and soon after, travelled to the continent in the hope of securing French military aid.

The borough possesses a military significance for 1700 – 1749, 1750 – 1799, 1850-1874.

In November 1799, France was suffering the effects of military reverses brought on by < span lang =" fr "> Bonaparte </ span >' s adventurism in the Middle East.

His father, Martial Caillebotte ( 1799 – 1874 ), was the inheritor of the family's military textile business and was also a judge at the Seine department's Tribunal de Commerce.

French military disasters in 1798 and 1799 had shaken the Directory, and eventually shattered it.

Known since antiquity ( it was mentioned by Strabo in his Geographica and by Pliny ), the Georgian Military Road in its present form was begun by the Russian military in 1799.

In November 1799, France was suffering the effects of military reverses brought on by Bonaparte's adventurism in the Middle East.

In 1799 he was sent out on another special military mission, this time to the headquarters of the Austrian commander, Archduke Charles, to attempt to persuade him to retain his troops in Switzerland rather than removing them to the Middle Rhine, but he was unsuccessful.

In 1798 he administered the civil and military government of Piedmont at the time of the abdication of the king of Sardinia, and in 1799 he distinguished himself greatly as a divisional commander in the campaign against the Austrians and Russians.

In 1799 Muffling contributed to a military dictionary edited by Lieutenant W. von Leipziger, and in the winter of 1802-1803, being then a subaltern, he was appointed to the newly-formed general staff as quartermaster-lieutenant.

In 1799 he acted as Britain's military attaché to General Suvorov's headquarters during his campaign in Switzerland.

In 1799 he entered the military marine at Rochefort, but soon left it to join the Vendean army.

In 1799 Courtois served as a pharmacist in military hospitals.

He remained in military service until 1799, when he retired with the rank of major.

Captain John Montresor ( 22 April 1736 – 26 June 1799 ) was a British military engineer in North America.

Manuel Bulnes Prieto ( December 25, 1799 – October 18, 1866 ) was a Chilean military and political figure.

Struck by a deadly malady he developed chronic dysentery, and died on the 15th of December, 1799, in the forty-eight year of his age, at the very moment when the triumphant elevation of Bonaparte was opening up to his comrades a long and brilliant career of military glory.

The most notable leader of the movement, though maintaining a certain distance from the Old Catholic Church as an institution, was the renowned church historian and priest Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger ( 1799 – 1890 ), who had been excommunicated by the pope because of his support for the affair.

* January – Thomas Baldwin Marsh, American religious leader ( b. 1799 )

Though most of Provence, with the exception of Marseille, Aix and Avignon, was rural, conservative and largely royalist, it did produce some memorable figures in the French Revolution ; Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau from Aix, who tried to moderate the Revolution, and turn France into a constitutional monarchy like England ; the Marquis de Sade from Lacoste in the Luberon, who was a Deputy from the far left in the National Assembly ; Charles Barbaroux from Marseille, who sent a battalion of volunteers to Paris to fight in the French Revolutionary Army ; and Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès ( 1748 – 1836 ), an abbé, essayist and political leader, who was one of the chief theorists of the French Revolution, French Consulate, and First French Empire, and who, in 1799, was the instigator of the coup d ' état of 18 Brumaire, which brought Napoleon to power.

It was named for Joseph McDowell, a Revolutionary War leader and hero of the Battle of King's Mountain, and a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1797 to 1799.

* Thomas Muir of Huntershill, ( 1765 – 1799 ), political reformer, leader of the Scottish " Friends of the People Society "

Fox thought the coup d ' état of 1799 that brought Napoleon to power " a very bad beginning ... the manner of the thing quite odious ", But he was convinced that the French leader sincerely desired peace in order to consolidate his rule and rebuild his shattered country.

Paul François Jean Nicolas, vicomte de Barras ( 30 June 1755 – 29 January 1829 ) was a French politician of the French Revolution, and the main executive leader of the Directory regime of 1795 – 1799.

Friedrich August Gottreu Tholuck ( March 30, 1799 – June 10, 1877 ), known as August Tholuck, was a German Protestant theologian and church leader.

Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, KG, PC ( 29 March 1799 – 23 October 1869 ) was an English statesman, three times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and to date the longest serving leader of the Conservative Party.

* Dr. Thomas Young-1731 – 1799 born Little Britain — leader of the Boston Tea Party ( Indians )

He became a leader among evangelical churchmen, was one of the founders of the Church Missionary Society in 1799, the London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews ( now known as the Church's Ministry Among Jewish People or CMJ ) in 1809, and acted as adviser to the British East India Company in the choice of chaplains for India.

* Thomas Muir ( political reformer ) ( 1765 – 1799 ), leader of the Scottish " Friends of the People Society "

The Gaol was a place of execution up to the end of the 19th century and it was here that Billy Byrne, a leader of the 1798 rebellion, met his end in 1799.

* William A. Bowles ( 1799 – 1873 ), American doctor, soldier and Knights of the Golden Circle leader

In 1799 a group of soldiers from Valle San Giovanni, under the leadership of the brigand leader, Vincenzo Rolli, fought valiantly against the French occupying forces.

Thomas Baldwin Marsh ( November 1, 1799 – January 1866 ) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

David Wyman Patten ( sometimes referred to as David Warren Patten ) ( November 14, 1799 – October 25, 1838 ) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and an original member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

* The Dwyer McAllister Cottage at Dernamuck in the Glen of Imaal, Wicklow ( scene of rebel leader Michael Dwyer's escape from British troops in 1799 ), is acquired by the Irish State from the Hoxey family, with President O ' Kelly being present at the ceremonial handover.

* John E. Page ( 1799 – 1867 ), early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement

After several campaigns, his rivals accepted him as their leader, and he united the Sikh factions into one state and he took the title of Maharaja on April 12, 1801 ( to coincide with Baisakhi day ), with Lahore having served as his capital from 1799.

In January 1799 Marthinus Prinsloo, the leader of the republicans in 1795, again rebelled, but surrendered in April following.

John Edward Page ( February 25, 1799 – October 14, 1867 ) was an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement.

Of the daughters, Donna Maria Giuseppa Carascon married Don Berlingiero Scoppa of Lucera, Donna Marianna Carascon married Don Orsino Scoppa of Lucera, Donna Berardina Carrascon married into the noble D ' Espinosa Family and was godmother to General Don Gabriele Manthoné, a leader of the 1799 Naples revolution.

Of the daughters, Donna Maria Giuseppa Carascon married Don Berlingiero Scoppa of Lucera, Donna Marianna Carascon married Don Orsino Scoppa of Lucera, Donna Berardina Carrascon married into the noble D ' Espinosa Family and was godmother to General Don Gabriele Manthoné, a leader of the 1799 Naples revolution.